Port Vancouver port begins truck strike recovery

Containers are moving again at a more-normal volume after federal, provincial and port officials agreed four days ago to improve compensation for delivery drivers to end a six-week strike at Port Metro Vancouver , a port official said Friday. Authorities said they would increase minimum starting pay for drivers, increase per trip payments and pay a fee if drivers have to wait 90 minutes or more at a terminal to pick up or drop off a box. Truckers returned to work on Friday and truck throughput was more than 80 percent of normal, port spokesman John Parker-Jervis said in a voicemail. Truck transactions by midday were about double the highest numbers during the disruption, he said. On March 20, the port anno...